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				<h1>About IATI Explorer</h1>
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						The IATI Explorer uses the <a href="http://simile-widgets.org/exhibit/" title="Simile Exhibit">browser-based Exhibit tool</a> to provide a view onto <a href="http://iatiregistry.org/">International Aid Transparency Initiative</a> data from the range of donor agencies publishing using the <a href="http://aidtransparency.net">IATI Standard</a>.
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						The explorer allows you to select a sub-set of IATI data to load up in your browser where you can then further filter and browse the data with a an interface to let you filter and refine your view of activities. You can view a full profile of each project, and explore data in timeline, tabular and map forms. 
				
						This is an experimental tool, and due to differences in the data available from different donors, and the different ways donors may represent their data at present, there are a number of issues that may affect the presentation of data and the functioning of this app. This tool requires a modern web browser (Firefox; Chrome or Internet Explorer 7 and above) and makes extensive use of Javascript. Alternative access to IATI Data is linked below.
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					<h3>An accessible interface</h3>
					<p>The Explorer uses a browser-based interface to let you interactively explore small sets of IATI data, and to grab the data you want to export.
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					It is an ideal tool for finding out what IATI data contains. After choosing the activities you want to explore, you can further filter this set by sector, funder, location and other values, with the updates instantly displayed for you. You can also view a full profile for each individual activity.
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					This interface works in modern web browsers (Chrome, Firefox, IE7+). As it loads data directly into your web browser, for large sets of activities loading can take some time.
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					<h3>Direct access to filtered data</h3>
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					The Explorer also provides direct access to slices through IATI data for programmers. The Explorer caches copies of all IATI files in it's document store for the convenience of third-party data users and makes it possible to fetch back activity records from across different original data files. For uses that rely on having the very latest data, you may wish to go direct to donor files on the IATI Registry.
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					The Explorer can convert data into a number of formats, providing it back as XML, JSON and CSV (coming soon).
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					Two access methods are supported: <strong>A RESTful API</strong> and <strong>An xpath endpoint</strong>. More details in our <a href="data.php">How to Use Data</a> section.
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				<h3>About IATI</h3>
				<p><a href="http://aidtransparency.net">IATI Standard</a> aims to make information about aid spending easier to access, use and understand.</p>
				
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				The <a target="_blank" href="http://www.aidtransparency.net">International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI)</a> is a global initiative&mdash;comprised of a broad 
				coalition of bilateral, multilateral, and private donor organizations, as well as countries that receive aid&mdash;
				and civil society organizations to make aid information more accessible and useful. 
				The <a target="_blank" href="http://iatistandard.org">IATI data standard</a>, the emerging international standard for reporting aid information,
				 is designed to allow aid donors to organize information on their activities in a streamlined, comparable format with three components: 
				 1) the&nbsp;<a target="_blank" href="http://iatistandard.org/standard/activities">Activity Standard</a>; 
				 2) the&nbsp;<a target="_blank" href="http://iatistandard.org/organisation-standard">Organisation Standard</a>; and 
				 3) the&nbsp;<a target="_blank" href="http://iatistandard.org/standard/codelists">IATI Codelists</a>.
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					IATI has developed and agreed a common, open, international standard &ndash; <a href="http://iatistandard.org/">the IATI standard</a>. 
					This sets guidelines for publishing information about aid spending. 
					<strong>IATI will not create a new database.</strong> 
					It will not replace work already being done, by organisations such as the OECD-Development Assistance Committee (DAC), 
					to produce <a href="http://www.oecd.org/dac/stats">statistics about past aid flows</a> 
					and aid activities. Instead, the IATI standard builds on &ndash; and goes beyond &ndash;
					 the standards and definitions that have already been agreed.
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				<h3>What is the IATI standard?</h3>
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					 <a href="http://iatistandard.org/">The IATI standard</a> consists of two main standards: an "organisation standard", designed
					for publishing forward-looking budget data; and an "activity standard" for
					publishing details of past, current and planned aid activities or projects.
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					Additionally, there are various code lists that provide common definitions
					for specifying values such as sector descriptions, geographical information
					and types of financial transaction.
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					The standards and code lists, as well as XML schemas and user guides are
					available at <a href="http://iatistandard.org/">the IATI standard website</a>.
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